Blood event March 2006
Breakfast and tour of Tate Triennial 2006 - New British Art
Image: Cerith Wyn Evans, In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni, 1997
Sunday March 12 2006, 10:30am
We made a departure from our mid-week evening events and invited Blood members and their friends to a very civilized Sunday of breakfast followed by a private tour of the Tate Triennial.
> 10:30am Breakfast at Tate restaurant
Besides a great Modern British menu, the restaurant features a 1927 mural by Rex Whistler, then a twenty-three year old Slade student. When mural was unveiled, the Tate restaurant was described as 'The Most Amusing Room in Europe.'
>> followed by Blood tour of Tate Triennial exhibition
Every three years Tate Britain holds a Triennial exhibition showcasing new developments in recent art. This third Tate Triennial 2006 is curated by Beatrix Ruf, Director of the Kunsthalle in Zurich, who offers an international perspective on the present British art scene. She brought together thirty-six artists who all explore a significant strand in contemporary art: the reuse and recasting of cultural material.
The exhibition features artists from across different generations who work with a diverse range of media: from film, painting, photography, and sculpture to installation and live work. Many of the works in this exhibition focus on themes of repetition, reprocessing and the appropriation of images and facts, on a spectrum between tribute and pastiche.
Different visual codes and imagery are being combined, often from competing rather than connecting influences, to create highly personal languages. Its forms range from the classic reiteration of motifs, collage and montage to file sharing and digital reproduction. While these approaches are most commonly associated with postmodernism, the Tate Triennial reveals how an entirely new range of possibilities is reinvigorating such processes in current art practice.
This was a fundraising event for Blood. Cost was £20 per person which included breakfast and the tour of the Triennial.
We were taken by surprise by its popularity, the event booked out within 24 hours so we actually organised two tours of the Triennial and had over 40 people at breakfast.
Clearly this is a format that works for Blood members, so look out for more Sunday brunch + art events...
More info about Tate Triennial
Please note:
This is one of many art events organised by Blood in the past.
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